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Top 25 Retail media agencies based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 337 retail media agencies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 6,450 professional contacts across them, including 1,383 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers retail media agencies headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest retail media agencies based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 652 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tradeway is South Africa's leading independent activation agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 341 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A leading full-service communications agency, known for seamlessly delivering impactful solutions with unparalleled retail expertise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 260 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TBWA\ is The Disruption® Company: the cultural engine for 21st century business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The MediaShop is a full service, innovative, pioneering, always evolving media agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a specialised retail services company that helps brands optimise sales and improve in-store execution with tailored, hands-on solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “XP SQUARED is consumer marketing company that specialises in end-to-end shopper marketing solutions including activations, POS, sampling, events and more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Across our 22+ years of retail and brand marketing, we know that it’s all about the message, medium, and moment where you capture your audience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We established Promise with no clients or start-up capital in 2005.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Google knows what consumers are looking for.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to the house of Resonance™ - Mortimer Harvey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “United Stations is a specialist media sales house, boasting a national footprint of some of the top radio brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brutal simplicity of thought is at the heart of everything we do and we use this to guarantee that our work is always simple, creative and impactful.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VF!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GroupM is the world’s leading media investment company responsible for more than $45B (COMvergence) in annual media investment through agencies including Mindshare, MediaCom…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pure Retail offers specialized in-store retail solutions that will ensure your brand is kept front of mind and does not get lost in and amongst a sea of competitors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Brand & Beverage Company is a retail sales and brand marketing specialist offering brand owners a start-to-end sales, merchandising & distribution solution for the emerging…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With over two decades of experience, Eyes and Ears Marketing Services is a accredited marketing agency with extensive experience in market research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “100 Degrees Online Marketing is a digital media specialist company and one of the leading South African media placement and online marketing agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We have a challenger mindset and through this have made more brands ‘go viral’, globally, than any other agency in Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As Primedia Instore we can guarantee that you and your brand will have access to: 1.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aqua is an integrated marketing agency with strong entrepreneurial roots.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Birthmark provides video solutions for on air and online marketing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Angle Orange, founded in 2005 is a shopper marketing agency based in Cape Town, South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Mediaheads360 we are a dynamic team of media specialists that have a love for powerful, creative ideas that drive holistic media campaigns.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Keys Communications are Township Media Specialists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: retail media agencies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names retail media agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of retail media agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name retail media agencies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Retail media agencies based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 337 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among retail media agencies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “retail media agencies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names retail media agencies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among retail media agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,383 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Retail media agencies by metro
- Retail media agencies in Johannesburg100
- Retail media agencies in Cape Town52
- Retail media agencies in Sandton28
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names retail media agencies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many retail media agencies are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 337 retail media agencies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Tradeway, headquartered in Randburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most retail media agencies?
Johannesburg leads with 100 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (52) and Sandton (28).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,383 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 337 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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